---
title: Installation | Dagster
description: Install Dagster
---

# Installation

Dagster is a a data orchestrator. Learn what Dagster is all about on our [homepage](/getting-started)
or in the [Tutorial](/tutorial).

## Installing Dagster

To install Dagster and Dagit into an existing Python environment, run:

```bash
pip install dagster dagit
```

This will install the latest stable version of the core Dagster packages in your current Python
environment.

## Python Version and Environment

Dagster requires Python 3.6+. It is tested on Python 3.8, 3.7, 3.6.

To check that Python and the pip package manager are already installed in your environment, you can
run:

```bash
python --version
pip --version
```

We strongly recommend installing Dagster inside a Python virtualenv. If you are running Anaconda,
you should install Dagster inside a Conda environment.

If you would like to install Dagster from source, please see the section on
[Contributing](/community/contributing).
